I am pleased to release "
leafmap" - a new open-source Python package for geospatial analysis and interactive mapping in a Jupyter environment. It is a spin-off project of the
geemap Python package, which was designed specifically to work with Google Earth Engine (GEE). However, not everyone in the geospatial community has a GEE account. leafmap is designed to fill this
gap for non-GEE users. It enables users to perform advanced geospatial analysis and interactive mapping with minimal coding in a Jupyter environment (e.g., Google Colab, JupyterLab, Jupyter notebook). It is built upon a number of open-source packages, such
as folium and ipyleaflet (for creating interactive maps), WhiteboxTools and whiteboxgui (for analyzing geospatial data), and ipywidgets (for designing interactive graphical user interface).
The WhiteboxTools library
currently contains 447 tools for geospatial analysis. 